1980 Jeep CJ-7 - Nip Tuck
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1980 Jeep CJ7 - Nip Tuck
A CJ-7 With A Face-LiftIf you are tall we have bad news for you. It is a generally accepted unwritten rule that someone much over 5 feet 11 inches is never gonna be very comfortable in a flatfender Jeep. Why? Well those little tubs that fit well on almost any trail in the U.S. only allow the driver seat to be pushed back so far without modification to the overall length of the tub or rear wheel tubs. If you are six feet tall, sitting in a flatfender is possible, but uncomfortable. The rollbar is gonna be real close to your noodle and your knees will be desperately trying to share space with the steering wheel. Even at about 5 feet 10 inches, we can assure you that while long drives in our un-cut flatties are possible, but they are not terribly comfortable. Our legs almost always cramp up from holding the gas pedal at part throttle when driving for more than a few hours. Sure, you could just stretch a flattie tub, but in our opinion that never really ends up looking right. Now you could just buy a later and larger Jeep like a CJ7 , but while these Jeeps are cool they lack a certain level of coolness that literally flows from a flattie. The solution: Do what Marc Bryson of Woods Cross, Utah, did and graft a MB grille onto the nose of a CJ7 . Looks easy and sounds great, right? Well, while the end result is well worth the work, the swap was apparently not so easy and involved lots of “work” to the nose of the Jeep. The effect is that the nose job is clean, and as with any good surgery, you have to look for a while to find where the cuts were made. We recently got to hit a few trails in and around Moab with Mark, his sons, and his Jeep. Check out this one of a kind MB-7…er, CJ-7MB.
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A CJ-7 With A Face-LiftIf you are tall we have bad news for you. It is a generally accepted unwritten rule that someone much over 5 feet 11 inches is never gonna be very comfortable in a flatfender Jeep. Why? Well those little tubs that fit well on almost any trail in the U.S. only allow the driver seat to be pushed back so far without modification to the overall length of the tub or rear wheel tubs. If you are six feet tall, sitting in a flatfender is possible, but uncomfortable. The rollbar is gonna be real close to your noodle and your knees will be desperately trying to share space with the steering wheel. Even at about 5 feet 10 inches, we can assure you that while long drives in our un-cut flatties are possible, but they are not terribly comfortable. Our legs almost always cramp up from holding the gas pedal at part throttle when driving for more than a few hours. Sure, you could just stretch a flattie tub, but in our opinion that never really ends up looking right. Now you could just buy a later and larger Jeep like a CJ7 , but while these Jeeps are cool they lack a certain level of coolness that literally flows from a flattie. The solution: Do what Marc Bryson of Woods Cross, Utah, did and graft a MB grille onto the nose of a CJ7 . Looks easy and sounds great, right? Well, while the end result is well worth the work, the swap was apparently not so easy and involved lots of “work” to the nose of the Jeep. The effect is that the nose job is clean, and as with any good surgery, you have to look for a while to find where the cuts were made. We recently got to hit a few trails in and around Moab with Mark, his sons, and his Jeep. Check out this one of a kind MB-7…er, CJ-7MB.
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Photo Gallery: 1980 Jeep CJ-7 - Nip Tuck - Jp Magazine
Photo Gallery: 1980 Jeep CJ-7 - Nip Tuck - Jp Magazine
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